A cold front crossed Tasmania at the start of the week, leading to weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 100 mm in the west of the state. Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 50 mm were recorded in south-west Western Australia and north-east Victoria from the passage of cold fronts. Weekly totals of 25 to 50 mm were […]
RATES of national adult cattle slaughter hit a 39-month high last week, reaching 127,377 head. Not since May 2020, at the tail end of the 2019-20 drought, has Australia’s weekly cattle slaughter been this high. National Livestock Reporting Service data released this morning shows that last week’s national tally (week 36) was 34,700 head or […]
The current situation in Indonesia is already having a huge impact on Australian producers in the north and is another blow to the live export sector. In my opinion we still fail to understand how Indonesia, and Asia in general, works. Or more specifically we rely too heavily on political solutions to trade issues. There […]
In June 2023, the national park was returned to the Waanyi People. Now dedicated as Boodjamulla National Park (Aboriginal Land), the national park is under the cooperative management of the Waanyi People and QPWS, through the Cooperative Management Council. Click to check the original article.
Top Speckle Park bull, Black Diamond P207 Secret Admirer S1600, with first time buyers Andrew Reilly and Yen Yen, Wongalea, Dalby, with vendors Melissa, Andrew and Murray Van der Drift, and Nutiren Ag Solutions’ Mark Scown, Rockhampton. Picture by Ben Harden Click to check the original article.
A monthly column written for Beef Central by US meat and livestock industry commentator Steve Kay, publisher of US Cattle Buyers’ Weekly READERS might recall that in my column for Beef Central last February, I wrote that ten entities or individuals had announced plans to build new beef processing plants in the […]
WITH plenty of interest already being shown in Beef Central’s 2024 US study tour and seats starting to book up, it is worth looking at the Texas part of the trip. While the tour starts in Chicago visiting the Australian beef industry’s single-largest customer, McDonald’s, most of the time will be spent in America’s biggest […]
Kansas State University agricultural economists have completed a broad analysis of the impact of grid pricing in the cattle industry, concluding – among other findings – that producers and consumers have benefitted from negotiated pricing agreements. According to K-State livestock economist Ted Schroeder, grid pricing of fed cattle refers to valuing a lot of cattle […]
The Seawrights were delighted to top the sale in what was a tough market. Click to check the original article.
In keeping with my own submission to the inquiry, which adopts precedent from recommendations made by the UN secretary-general and some Australian researchers, I believe we need to break down the disconnected, siloed, and fragmented policies and responses often seen – and already imposed – to confront the reality of food insecurity in Australia. Click […]
Victoria and southern NSW are in the box seat to produce Australia’s best winter crops this year, according to a leading grains analyst. Market Check chief executive Mick Crundall told this week’s episode of The Australian Ag Podcast said while Western Australia produced an “absolute thumper” of a crop last year, tonnages in the nation’s […]
A fair panel of buyers was present, however one major feeder operator remains absent from the buying panel. Click to check the original article.